Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Marcus Aurelius

Profession : Roman Emperor

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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